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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:16:57 -0700
From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
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To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map	and	redosched
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Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Well, admittedly I am not entirely clear on what problem is being solved as
> I was not part of the original thread with Linus.  My impression of what you
> were trying to solve was to eliminate the need to rebuild the domains for a
> hotplug event (which I think is a good problem to solve), thus eliminating
> some complexity and (iiuc) races there.
> 
> However, based on what you just said, I am not sure I've got that entirely
> right anymore.  Can you clarify the intent (or point me at the original thread)
> so we are on the same page?
Here is the link to the original thread
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/11/328
And here is where Linus explained the idea
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/12/137

I'll reply to the rest of your email tomorrow (can't keep my yes open any
longer :)).

Max
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